The Conversation – Rachael Sharman and Michael Nagel
Although COVID lockdowns played a role in disrupting normal social learning processes, concerns about social and emotional development in our teens has been bubbling away for some time across cultures that have easy access to screen-based technologies and social media. COVID may have thrown petrol on the flames, but it did not light this fire.
So what is going on? Does overexposure to screens lead to social impairments, and if so, how?